It's Natural Family Planning Awareness Week!

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Now I know how I rate when I actually start a thread! I never start threads! You guys are going to give me a complex. (JK)

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1ke said:
Wow! Zero comments.

Now I know how I rate when I actually start a thread! I never start threads! You guys are going to give me a complex. (JK)

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Haha, replying just to curtail the size of the complex you develop.
 
1ke said:
Wow! Zero comments.

Now I know how I rate when I actually start a thread! I never start threads! You guys are going to give me a complex. (JK)

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But it wasn’t on canon law… Okay it is related to marriage though. 😃

Happy NFP awareness week to you too.

I was just thinking about NFP awareness week last month. This is the first year in the last 6 years that my wife and I won’t be hosting any talks about NFP. She got a bit burned out when our clergy would mention casino night or youth trips, but politely declined to make any mention of NFP awareness week. Last year we had exactly zero people show up to a discussion on NFP and God’s plan for marriage. It hard to fight for it when it feels like you have zero support.

I am happy to know we aren’t the only ones aware of awareness week. Maybe after a break we will be refreshed to rejoin the battle.
 
Here is a great interview with Aleteia blogger Simcha Fisher in America magazine. An excerpt:
N.F.P. taught me something really hard, but so necessary in marriage: how to look past my own immediate desires and how to think more about what my husband wants and needs, and what the rest of the family wants and needs.
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Getting what you want all the time is a kind of prison. It sounds backward, but we’re actually liberated when we freely choose to put limits on ourselves—and this goes for men and women. Self-sacrifice, not instant gratification, is at the heart of love. My husband and I learned this through N.F.P., but it applies to all areas of our married life.
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And it’s made us slow down, talk about sex, think hard about it and approach it with gratitude and intentionality. In other words, it’s made sex kind of amazing, even thrilling, even after 18 years of marriage.
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1ke said:
Wow! Zero comments.

Now I know how I rate when I actually start a thread! I never start threads! You guys are going to give me a complex. (JK)

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Your job is to respond with sage-like wisdom, citing Church documentation when it exists, responding paragraph by paragraph, and with as much brevity as is acceptable to address the issue.

Leave the new topics to those of us with less wisdom, TYVM.

(I was pleased to know this fact about this week, though).
 
I hadn’t realized that there was an awareness week for NFP.

At my parish if we were to host an NFP conference, everyone would want to come and speak at it, but there would be nobody in the actual audience. 😃

On the plus side, most people in our parish are really excited about NFP. 🙂
 
jmcrae said:
At my parish if we were to host an NFP conference, everyone would want to come and speak at it, but there would be nobody in the actual audience. 😃

On the plus side, most people in our parish are really excited about NFP. 🙂
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I wish we had that problem. Last year we hosted coffee and donuts after each mass. We had free bound copies of humane vitae, prayer cards for families and couples and a number of other resources. When people would pick things up and ask about them they’d immediate drop it like I told them it was covered with plague spores. I think fewer people would have been offended by saying we were offering a black mass. :bigyikes:
 
Usige said:
I wish we had that problem. Last year we hosted coffee and donuts after each mass. We had free bound copies of humane vitae, prayer cards for families and couples and a number of other resources. When people would pick things up and ask about them they’d immediate drop it like I told them it was covered with plague spores. I think fewer people would have been offended by saying we were offering a black mass. :bigyikes:
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I’ll give you a mailing address for that bound copy of humane vitae! What is going on in the world where people refuse free books???
 
Usige said:
But it wasn’t on canon law… Okay it is related to marriage though. 😃

Happy NFP awareness week to you too.

I was just thinking about NFP awareness week last month. This is the first year in the last 6 years that my wife and I won’t be hosting any talks about NFP. She got a bit burned out when our clergy would mention casino night or youth trips, but politely declined to make any mention of NFP awareness week. Last year we had exactly zero people show up to a discussion on NFP and God’s plan for marriage. It hard to fight for it when it feels like you have zero support.

I am happy to know we aren’t the only ones aware of awareness week. Maybe after a break we will be refreshed to rejoin the battle.
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That’s really a shame. 😦

I am so sorry that that happened. I think of all of the time and effort that you and your wife must have put into getting ready for that evening, and then no one even shows up.
 
1ke said:
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Nooo! No complex! 👋

I have been out all afternoon! 😛
 
oldgraymare2 said:
That’s really a shame. 😦

I am so sorry that that happened. I think of all of the time and effort that you and your wife must have put into getting ready for that evening, and then no one even shows up.
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It unfortunately goes with the territory. I remember when my wife was interviewed for my entrance into formation, the ladies asked how she got along with others in ministry. She said that it can be tough sometimes when people roll their eyes or flat out lie. They were confussed until she reminded them that we do marriage prep and NFP. Something like 90-95% of our NFP classes are to people that only take it because it is required as part of marriage prep. My wife will only do private instruction to those who want to learn it.

We are actually slightly relieved that we are required to step away from marriage ministry for the next 4 years while in formation. It is hard to try to explain beauty of the teachings when people are checking their watches and asking what they need to do to “pass”.
 
I never heard of such a thing until I saw all of these posts. It is just a painful reminder for those whose spouses refuse to have anything to do with NFP.

It is so nice when you get to be a certain age and a huge load falls off of your shoulders!
 
Usige said:
It unfortunately goes with the territory. I remember when my wife was interviewed for my entrance into formation, the ladies asked how she got along with others in ministry. She said that it can be tough sometimes when people roll their eyes or flat out lie. They were confussed until she reminded them that we do marriage prep and NFP. Something like 90-95% of our NFP classes are to people that only take it because it is required as part of marriage prep. My wife will only do private instruction to those who want to learn it.

We are actually slightly relieved that we are required to step away from marriage ministry for the next 4 years while in formation. It is hard to try to explain beauty of the teachings when people are checking their watches and asking what they need to do to “pass”.
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I understand.

When we took the NFP classes that were being offered, I had a personal desire to learn because I actually wanted to learn, plus I wanted to know more about how my cycles were working. My husband was willing to go with me.

There were other couples in our class who were engaged, and wanted to learn so that they would be ready to use NFP in their marriage.
 
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